Painting the town ahead of the Relay
The Relay For Life of Ennis and its organizational committee are poised for a special event to “Paint the Town Purple” on Saturday, days before the May 17 event at the Texas Motorplex.
The Relay For Life of Ennis and its organizational committee are poised for a special event to “Paint the Town Purple” on Saturday, days before the May 17 event at the Texas Motorplex.
Ennis saw a nearly 8-percent jump in sales tax revenue for this month’s allocation over its May payment last year.
Plans are in place to see the Brookshire’s location on W. Ennis Avenue open May 22.
Candidates for local offices turned in their latest financial disclosure forms May 3, and some showed modest gains since the last disclosure deadline of April 26.
Mayor Pro-Tem Bob Taylor said formal goodbyes to his peers on the Ennis City Commission on Monday night.
In front of an overflow crowd, Ennis City Commission members voted Monday to table a proposal to purchase land north of Country Club Road.
Letter carries in Ennis and across America are gearing up for a massive one-day food drive on May 11.
City commissioners moved half way toward a planned buy of half of the former golf course on Country Club Road on Monday.
The Ennis Economic Development Corporation approved what could become the city’s biggest park project to date on Tuesday.
The Ennis Cultural Music Festival will light up NW. Main Street in downtown Saturday, featuring music and dance acts from various cultural backgrounds.
Further discussion about mosquito abatement efforts was a central point of the most recent gathering of the Ennis City Commission.
The president of the Ennis Garden Club said despite a slow start for this year’s bluebonnets, she expects a display just as large as last year’s bumper crop.
The Ennis Cultural Music Festival will return April 6 in downtown Ennis, featuring new and repeat performers from the first such event in 2012.
Ellis County has not yet acted on a proposal to begin county mosquito surveillance, but Ennis is preparing to resume its sampling program next month.
Matt Walker, lifelong Ennis resident and sales manager for Price Distributing in Ennis, is in the running for the Ward 6 mayor pro tem seat on the Ennis City Commission.
The latest round of updates to the Ennis Veterans Memorial faces an April 1 deadline.
Mayor Russell Thomas met with Meals on Wheels Executive Director Vinsen Faris and TXU Community Relations representative Shawn Parker to help hand out meals to clients on Tuesday morning.
Eastern Ellis County is bracing for another dry and hot summer season, and Ennis is watching its water source closely as reports of statewide shortages echo from recent years.
Bluebonnet expert Sandy Anderson testified to the Ennis Lions club Wednesday — Ennis has a good bluebonnet season in store.
